THE THYOIK DAILY BULLETIN The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper. Vol. 25 Seth M. Vining, Editor No- 315_TRYON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7TH. 1953 Published Daily Except [Est. 1-31-28]_Saturday and Sunday [5c Per Copy] ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE __AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 Weather Tuesday: High 55. low 23, Rel. Hum. 47. It is like spring today .... Mr. and Mrs. George Womack are in Washington, D. C., today to receive the Congres sional Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to their son in recog nition of his bravery and unselfish service in giving his best efforts to save others even though mor tally wounded himself. . . General Dw:ght Eisenhower was proclaim ed President of the U. S. Tues day when the Congiess confirmed the election count of November. . . . Congratulations to the noted poet, Carl Sandburg, from our neighboring county, who celebrated Ps 75th birthday Tuesday in ^■cago with 500 friends includ Governor Stevenson and Erik Poheman. Swedish ambassador to the U. S. who presented to him a e'ecorat'on from Sweden in recog nition of Sandburg’s ach’evements. . . . Concert this afternoon at 3:30 by Converse College for the Lanier Club in the Congregational Church House. Public invited. HOSPITAL NEWS New patients at St. Luke’s Hos pital include Mrs. J. C. Feder, Tryon; Mrs. Thomas P. Wright, R-l; Charles Searcy, Mill Spring; Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, Landrum. Patients discharged include Mrs. John Seism, Saluda R-l; Henry Glenn, Hendersonville. I Trvon Growth Shown By Post Office Receipts In totaling up the year’s business and comparing it with last year, Postmaster G. I. Henderson found that the Trvon post office did a total of $44,217.35 worth of post age business last year as com pared with $35,887.80 for the year before, an increase of $8,329.55. j Breaking the report down in quarters there was an increase throughout the year. March had $11,586.51, against $8,181.36. June $9,567.18, against $8,281.66. Sep tember $12,228.93, against $10, 517.09. December. $13,836.56, against $11,334.31. The Bulletin reporter in check ing the report said, “Contrary to popular belief the summer months of July, August and Sep tember showed more business than [ the spring periods from January I 1 to April 1. The quarterly break j down shows a healthy year round growth for the past cwo years, and indicates that Tryon is no longer' just a “winter resort” only. Many people have found the community delightful the year round and come back for their summer vaca tions as well as their winter stays.” I Mr. Henderson said during- the | year 13,000 one cent stamps were • sold; 70,000 two cent stamps and 53.000 three cent stamps, making a total of 136,000. This does not include Special Deliveries, Air Mail, and numerous other kind of stamps; nor letters mailed with stamps purchased elsewhere; nor approximately 100,000 franked and second class matter mailed at the local office; nor an estimated 300.000 pieces of mail that comes into the office from the outside to be distributed.

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